Chilling Video of Nancy Guthrie’s Bedroom Shows ‘Exactly’ How Her Abductor May Have ‘Walked Into’ Her Home: ‘If You Were a Bad Guy…’
It’s been over a month since Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie’s mom, was kidnapped. And though there are no clear leads and police have not yet identified a suspect, there’s a lot of looking back at what could have happened. Theories have sprung up. Every public appearance by Nancy is being scrutinized. What happened and how did it happen?
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly unearthed a 2013 Today show segment featuring a look at Nancy Guthrie’s bedtime routine. In the video, Guthrie is in her bedroom inside her Tucson, Arizona home, guiding her daughter, Savannah, and her Today show colleagues through her daily bed-making routine. Police are now treating that same bedroom as a crime scene. On Wednesday, March 11, on her The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly broke down the footage.
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“Well, I think everybody needs to know how to make a bed. So, when the time came to teach [Savannah and her siblings] how to make a bed, this is what I tried to teach you,” Nancy explained in the clip, with the hosts laughing at Savannah and following along as Nancy showed how she made her bed every day.
“So what’s interesting about that clip is you can see where [Nancy] slept every night,” Kelly said, per Parade. “And you can see exactly what this abductor must have walked into. I mean, does anybody’s mother dramatically overhaul their bedroom when they’re in their 80s, 70s? I mean, that was, what, 13 years ago?”
Kelly added, “The point is simply you can see right into her bedroom and, generally, the way it was and the way it was set up. And she lives in the same house.”
The footage, Kelly suggested, could have been something the kidnapper studied. “We had an alleged kidnapper note early on in the Nancy Guthrie scandal, claiming they knew exactly where she kept her Apple Watch,” Kelly said. “And they had described something inside Nancy’s bedroom…Did those people behind that note see this segment?”
Law enforcement could never confirm that the ransom notes were authentic because no proof of life was provided. Kelly theorized there was enough in the video to “write a very convincing kidnap note” even if the person sending it wasn’t actually the kidnapper. “I could describe the inside of that room to a T,” Kelly said. “And if you didn’t know that the Today show had aired that footage in 2013, you would be very convinced that I had been inside Nancy Guthrie’s bedroom… I wonder whether the authorities are even aware that this was broadcast publicly.”
According to Kelly, the video could have been crucial in “potentially giving you a road map for what you would encounter once you go into that bedroom, if you were a bad guy willing to do some homework.”
This comes after the latest in the investigation has people speculating that Nancy did not walk out of her home the night of February 1. When police arrived at her house after Guthrie was reported missing, they found blood on the front door, on the porch, and on the driveway. She has not been seen since.
The reward for information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is up to $1 million.
